such as plasma spraying [8,9,10], the CS process does not involve substantial heating or melting of the sprayed powders. Instead, the formation of the coating arises from a severe plastic deformation of the accelerated powder particles upon their impingement at the substrate [11,12]. Thereby, the oxidation or phase changes in the feedstock material are effectively reduced, as well as e.g. the magnitude of the secondary residual stresses arising from the thermal expansion mismatch [13]. As such, CS has recently received a lot of attention as a novel method applicable for sensitive metals and alloys that readily undergo chemical or structural changes at elevated temperatures. Among the sprayed metallic prepared by water-stabilized plasma (WSP) spraying. In all reported cases, the difference between the in-plane and out-of plane properties of the coatings were significant, with the values of the ratio α = E OOP /E IP between the out-of-plane Young's modulus (E OOP ) and the in-plane Young's modulus (E IP ) ranging from 0.36 (for APS [19]) to 0.87 (for WSP [23]). Here we apply this method to determine the elastic constants and the strength of anisotropy for pure copper, aluminum, titanium and nickel coatings prepared by CS. The main advantage of the RUS method is that it enables the determination of all independent elastic constants of an anisotropic solid from measurements of one small sample. In addition, the RUS enables also a direct assessment of the internal friction parameter of the examined material Q −1 [21], which may bring an additional information on the integrity of the sprayed material or on density and activity of defects in it [24].